Thursday, 21 May

2:00-4:00 p.m. Registration and refreshments, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

4:30 p.m. Welcomes (Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Susan Martin; Michael Kulikowski)

4:40 p.m. Introduction to the Network: History and Goals (Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner)

5:00 p.m. “Master Narratives of Late Antiquity: Centralisation, Particularism and the Historiography of the Later Roman Empire” (Michael Kulikowski, Knoxville)

6.00 p.m. Coffee Break

6.30 p.m. Plenary Lecture: “Lists and Catalogues: A Late Roman Art Form” (John Matthews, Yale)

8.00 p.m. Reception, McClung Museum Rotunda

Friday, 22 May

Section A1: Divergent Elites: Imperial, Senatorial, Regional and Local (Chair: Michael Kulikowski)

9:00 a.m. Fabian Goldbeck, Basel: Current Concepts for the Study of Elites

9:45 a.m. John Weisweiler, Cambridge (UK): All the Emperor's Men - Senators and Emperors in Fourth-Century Rome

10.30 Coffee Break

10:50 a.m. Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Heidelberg: Reintegrating the Local Elites: The Emergence of the Notables

11:30 a.m. John Dillon, Heidelberg: The Inflation of Rank and Privilege in the Later Roman Empire, its Causes and Consequences

12:15 a.m. Clifford Ando, Chicago: Domesticating Change in Post-Antonine Law.

13:00 p.m. Lunch Buffet

Section A2: Change and Heterogeneity in the Representation of Elites (Chair: Danuta Shanzer, Urbana-Champaign)

2:00 p.m. Christian Witschel, Heidelberg: Changing Spaces and Media of Elite Representation in Late Antiquity

2:45 p.m. Julia Hillner, Sheffield: Domestic Space between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

3:30 p.m. Michelle Salzman, Riverside: Symmachus and the Mysterious Case of the Number Seven

4:15 p.m. Coffee Break

Section A3: Elite Identities: Barbarian and Roman (Chair: Christian Witschel, Heidelberg)

4:45 p.m. Philipp von Rummel, DAI Rome: Barbarians as Roman Elite: the Problem of Perspective

5:30 p.m. Roland Steinacher, Vienna: Military Elites, Romans or Barbarians?

6:15 p.m. Sebastian Gairhos, Augsburg: Raetia as Case Study for Changes and New Elite Identities

8:00 p.m. Reception

Saturday, 23 May

Section A4: Paideia: the End of Shared Graeco-Latin Culture? (Chair: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Gießen/Brown)

9:00 a.m. Edward Watts, Bloomington: Oral Traditions and Ethical Teaching among the Last Platonists

9:45 p.m. Susanna Elm, Berkeley: Translating Roman Greekness for the Greek Romans

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

Section B
Section B1: The Making of Orthodoxy (Chair: Hartmut Leppin, Frankfurt)

11:00 a.m. Ralph Mathisen, Urbana-Champaign: Making Orthodoxies in the West: The Creed of Rimini and the Legitimation of Arianism
Correspondent: Winrich Löhr, Heidelberg

12:00 p.m. Christina Shepardson, Knoxville: Locating Orthodoxy: Syrian Judaizers and Narratives of Imperial Christianity

12:45 p.m.Lunch Buffet

Section B2: Competing Authorites: Church and State, Bishops and Monks (Chair: Noel Lenski, Boulder)

2:00 p.m. Kai Trampedach, Heidelberg: Forms of Interaction between Emperors, Bishops and Monks in Constantinople in the Fifth Century

2:45 p.m. Steffen Diefenbach, Augsburg: Leadership, Charismatic Authority and Public Office: Bishops in Late Antique Gaul

3:30 p.m. Rudolf Haensch, Munich: Ruling Holy Countries: an Easy Task? The Governors of the Three Palestines in Late Antiquity

4:15 p.m. Coffee Break

Section B3: Christianization and the Integration of the Hinterland (Chair: Gunnar Brands, Halle)

4:45 p.m. Judith Végh, Heidelberg: The Christianization of Spain: A Case apart?

5:30 p.m. Roland Prien, Heidelberg: The Case of Early Christianity in the Northwestern Provinces: Archaeological Evidence versus Written Sources

6:15 p.m. Richard E. Payne, Cambridge (UK): Hagiography and the Christianization of Local Elites in the Provinces of Late Antique Iran

Sunday, 24 May

9:00 a.m. Summary, Overview, Questions Raised (Christian Witschel)

9:15 a.m. Discussion

11:00 a.m.Conference Concludes

12.00 p.m. Departures begin.